Kouk said “looking at it”, sounds like Insiders merely “Meh’d’ it, nothing to see here. You would think all that ‘debt and deficit disaster’ talk from the Coalition and the press coverage when the debt was half that never happened.

Outspoken Senator Will Keep Dragging Her Party On Adani And Asylum Seekers

“I certainly would never defend turn backs.”
Senator Lisa Singh has promised to keep speaking out against her party’s positions on major issues, maintaining that boat turn backs are a bad idea and the Adani coal mine shouldn’t be built

France on Saturday made good on its promise to invite foreign climate change experts to the country, pledging €30 million to fund the work of up to 50 researchers.

The move comes two weeks after President Emmanuel Macron criticised his US counterpart Donald Trump for pulling out of the UN’s Paris climate agreement – calling on US climate scientists and entrepreneurs to “come and work in France on concrete solutions for climate”.

That to me means they issued statements, and they all colluded on them. It was an orchestrated attack on the court and the judges, not some innocent remarks made in ignorance, as the SG wanted the three judges at the contempt hearing to believe.

How often have we heard some Abbott/Turnbull minister or other dodge a question by saying they cannot talk about an issue because it’s before the courts. And yet THREE ministers all decided to make comments while a matter was still with the court. Ignorance? Not blooming likely.

Perhaps the best way for a novelist to portray evil is through detachment, allowing the story and characters to engage the reader at such an elemental level that a deep emotional response is unavoidable. The evil of child abuse within the Catholic Church is, of course, not a phenomenon limited to Ireland.

Watch Dave in all his glory shit on Health and Safety. The original article

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“Health and safety legislation has become an “albatross around the neck of British businesses”, costing them billions of pounds a year and leaving entrepreneurs in fear of speculative claims, he said”

The education minister Simon Birmingham says he wants his schools funding package passed this week, although the prospects of the Turnbull government securing a funding deal with Greens backing appear to be fading.

With parliament set to resume on Monday for the final sitting before the winter recess, Birmingham told reporters on Sunday the government was prepared to negotiate with either the Greens or the crossbench to pass the so-called Gonski 2.0 package.

But the Australian Education Union appeared on Sunday to be digging in against the package – a development that will make it difficult, if not impossible, for the Greens to sign up.

Labor is pursuing Malcolm Turnbull over comments he made last week endorsing criticism of the Victorian judiciary by three of his ministers – interventions which have now exposed them to contempt charges.

The shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, says the day before last Friday’s court hearing, the prime minister went on radio station 3AW and “backed in his ministers’ comments, despite knowing this matter was before the court the following day”.

In a radio interview last Thursday, Turnbull said the courts of justice “are not immune from public criticism”.

“The courts cannot be and are not immune from criticism which may extend to robust observations of a particular decision or penalty,” the prime minister said.

At 72 years old, his health has deteriorated rapidly within the confines of Brisbane International Transit Accommodation (BITA). Upon his arrest on 3 May 2017, in Cairns by nine Australian Border Force stormtroopers dressed in black tactical gear and carrying guns, it took five days and a respiratory specialist to stabilise him enough to be fit to fly. He was accompanied on the flight to Brisbane by a nurse, and an oxygen tank.

Now he’s in immigration detention and has been told that his deportation to the United States is imminent

The Turnbull Government is slashing funding to equipment used in radiation therapy in less than two weeks’ time- funding for machines to treat cervical cancer will cease completely, and funding for other radiation machines will be cut significantly.
This is extremely concerning. Australia can’t afford a single backwards step when it comes cancer treatment